Justice Jackson Rips U.S. High Court Decision On Birthright Citizenship

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the Court’s conservative majority of accelerating the “demise” of government institutions by handing President Donald Trump a significant victory in a decision on birthright citizenship, Jennifer Bowers Bahney reported for Raw Story.

The conservative majority brushed off Justice Jackson's warning. I Photo: Biden White House Archived Flickr

In a 6–3 ruling, the Court found that universal injunctions issued by lower courts were improper and exceeded judicial authority. That means lower courts must now resolve citizenship issues on a case-by-case basis.

“Perhaps the degradation of our rule-of-law regime would happen anyway,” Jackson wrote in her dissent.

“But this Court’s complicity in the creation of a culture of disdain for lower courts, their rulings, and the law (as they interpret it) will surely hasten the downfall of governing institutions, enabling our collective demise.”

She continued: “At the very least, I lament that the majority is so caught up in the minutiae of the Government’s self-serving, finger-pointing arguments that it misses the plot.”

The conservative majority brushed off her warning.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett responded, “We will not dwell on Justice Jackson’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.”